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Hi Dennis
Making a panorama from your viewing location can be very satisfying particularly if you align it accurately on the horizon. You can watch stars on the horizon setting or rising through trees etc.
The essentials to make a panorama are a digital camera that can be stably mounted eg on a tripod. Take a series of about 15 pictures evenly spaced around the horizon (preferably on a grassy area so a good ground texture can be assembled). These pictures can be assembled in a panorama program, there are a few free ones out there.
Then using a good graphics program, The Gimp (free) or Photo Shop CS (expensive), carefully remove the sky (make an alpha layer) to give a transparent background. For good resolution the panorama should be about 10000 pixels wide and about 1000 pixels high. The panorama is cut into eight or ten equal sections. Each section is then re-processed to a square modula 2.
These textures are then put into a folder in the landscape folder and a landscape.ini file is generated with all the displaying details.
If you think this is too hard give me you pictures and I will make them into a landscape. Its quite easy once you have made the first one. I have made three or four for different people.
Barry
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